ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2010

son of a bitch. why did i think it was the other way round???

sorry i'm new i suck at ilx.

lol @ deej, "wut" is so many genres (dance, garage, grime, dubstep, r&b, hip-hop) before it's indie o_0

should there be a ballot thread or are we just gonna do a 'tracks i voted for' thing here?

oh nevermind i just saw it

ILM 2010 Tracks Poll Ballots/Stats/Banter/Recriminations Thread

Alright guys I'm missing out on a great party because I wanted to see the results live. Gotta go. Thanks for doing this, one of the most interesting and agreeable polls I've seen on ILM.

this might surprise u guys but u.s. rap listeners like rapping in their rap songs

xp yeah I voted for Apply, partly because I was trying to second-guess what the consensus might be? Anything from Ring could've represented it for me.

Also want to say how delighted I am with the results. Sure, I'm not into every song, but it really betrays a good message about ILM as a community of music fans.

I forgot what my ballot was - can someone send it to me?

this is why:

"An ordered albums/tracks ballot will count the points down from 50, 48, 46...6, 4, 2."

interpreted that to mean my ballot should be ordered like that...

wish id voted, wonder if waka would have taken it

From what I can see, Wut was completely ignored by British indie audiences last year, they were going for Magnetic Man and the lairier end of dubstep instead.

well done everyone, this was a blast

btw Drugs i gave up on trying to parse your post but it seemed like you were talking about doing ILM poll noms before P&J results, which we already do, and i was referring to bumping ILM results to run before P&J results

Enthusiasm = (points total)/(#votes) - 26

So if it's negative then that track's voters were less enthusiastic than average (tended to put in in the lower half of their ballot)

Diversity = (number of unique tracks on all ballots for that track)/(number of tracks on all ballots for that track)

In general, diversity will go down as the number of votes goes up as there's more chance of overlap. But if a track is less diverse than its neighbours (e.g. Rick Ross) then its voters had more homogeneous ballots.

From what I can see, Wut was completely ignored by British indie audiences last year, they were going for Magnetic Man and the lairier end of dubstep instead.

and now they're going for james blake and jamie woon - very definitely NOT girl unit

amazing poll, thanks everyone!

Well, I'm really out of step with ilx taste wise. But then I knew that anyway, so.

From what I can see, Wut was completely ignored by British indie audiences last year, they were going for Magnetic Man and the lairier end of dubstep instead.

― Matt DC, Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:14 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fair enough i dont know the internals of that scene, im just saying in the u.s. that stuff is basically all consumed by the same ppl -- idm heads

(or indie heads to a degree)

Albums poll next Monday?

i think the running theme here is "deej things girl unit = indie" ok discussion over

thinks* obv.

Have to say I'm amazed at the results - as far as I knew "Wut" was just some track that Lex really liked and Waka just inhabited the goon thread. Though as soon as I saw them I knew the rollout was going to be a blast.

Well done ILM!

im just saying in the u.s. that stuff is basically all consumed by the same ppl -- idm heads

isn't this the case for pretty much all european dance music that isn't, like, guettastyle commercial dance? i don't see any point in judging european club music by its US audience

Yeah, albums results start on Monday.

yeah but that's to be expected i think? cartoonish reduction = lowest common denominator imo

― ullr saves (gbx), Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:08 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

maybe, but i'd expect the lowest common denominators to come from the chart pop middle ground where big hits can unify the tribes, not weirdly polarized non-hits that fly the flag for this or that niche. like i'm amazed that tracks like "wut", "hard in da paint" and "round and round" finished above the likes of "tightrope", "sprawl II", "shutterbugg", "dancing on my own", "teenage dream" and "window seat", all of which strike me as much more generally populist and inclusive in their appeal.

not saying anyone is wrong to have voted as they did, just a bit surprised.

"An ordered albums/tracks ballot will count the points down from 50, 48, 46...6, 4, 2."

interpreted that to mean my ballot should be ordered like that...

Well, your ballot *should* have been ordered like that. #1 = 50 points, #2 = 48 points, etc.

like i'm amazed that tracks like "wut", "hard in da paint" and "round and round" finished above the likes of "tightrope", "sprawl II", "shutterbugg", "dancing on my own", "teenage dream" and "window seat"

of those, only "teenage dream" was really a big hit - "dancing on my own" was a minor hit in the UK, "shutterbugg" a VERY minor one in the UK.

as a pop fan i admit that chart pop pretty much sucked in 2010 tho.

in a way, each of the top 3 songs is an almost cartoonish reduction of a key ILM contributer niche: dance pop, goon rap, and indie rock. they're songs that exemplify their genres for the faithful, not songs that unify the world under a populist umbrella. all seem like the sort of thing that should place in the 20s somewhere, maybe the low teens.

contenderizer w/ an interesting insight here, though I'm uncomfortable with the idea that these songs can be both "cartoonish reductions" of the genres while at the same time exemplifying them. Makes ILX/genre fanatics sound like dupes imo. I will say that each song seems to inhabit their chosen genre's most extreme tendencies. If anybody's up to admitting it, I'd kinda like to know who were the ones who voted one of the top 3 as their #1 picks... (Lex already fessed up to placing Wut as #1)

man it kinda sux that hard in the paint wasn't #1. i don't hate wut or anything but it's same w/ like electrik red coming second to fever ray -- honestly who still gives two fux abt fever ray

who gives a fuck about electrik red

honestly who still gives two fux abt fever ray

me, that's who

Me too.

i give a fuck about electrik red AND fever ray AND girl unit AND waka flocka flame

i win!

(Lex already fessed up to placing Wut as #1)

i thought it'd be a lock for the top 30 - didn't imagine it'd even make the top 10 let alone be the #1, kind of blown away by that

With great power comes great responsibility, lex.

i honestly wish i liked everything

wait, toot and boot didn't crack the 77? y'all are frontin.

was my number one! :( i guess vote was split with smang it.

no 'wile out' either? was that on last years poll or something? :'(

i voted for gyptian, waka, ciara, rick ross, t. swift & wiz.

toot it and smang it are both good songs but toot it is like miles above

I thought it was refreshing that no one genre had a stranglehold on the results.

haha it was my #1 too :)

other noteable omission: yahzarah

toot it and smang it are both good songs but toot it is like miles above

imo also

yeah

Hm, that Arcade Fire remix isn't too bad. This track may grow on me yet.

Not in any major way but something about it reminds me of "100,000 Fireflies". The airy female vocals, the heartache... ?

shit, great work everyone! this has been one of the most rewarding and inspirational ILM polls i've ever participated in. KIP in effect pretty much all the way through, and i heard tons of brilliant music i'd probably never have been exposed to otherwise. thank you for the fives, lil b, swans, caribou and so much more. love all y'all.

ashamed to say i didn't vote for "toot it and boot it". ;_; love that song SOOOOO much, but i threw my tracks ballot together in like 10 min at the last possible moment, and as a result it made next to no sense. i am proud to have helped "lightweight jammin", "shutterbugg", "yamaha", "lovesick" and "hard in da paint" along.

If nothing else, this poll has introduced me to Earl Sweatshirt, and that p.dece Scissor Sisters track, amongst others.

just got back from work where I was running around this morning singing RUH RUH LIKE A DUNGEON DRAGON for like 3 hours, thanks ILM!

looking forward to album poll

bummed that The Crystal Ark's "The City Never Sleeps" didn't make it

Great poll all around! Had a blast!